Dr. Phil McGraw records his highest-ever total thanks to a sizeable cut of profits from his eponymous show, which is produced by McGraw's Peteski productions and distributed by CBS. Oprah's top-earning protégé pads his paycheck with endorsements for the AARP and AstraZeneca plus an executive producer slot on The Doctors.

“The older I get, there’s no way am I going to spend my life doing what somebody else wants me to do,” McGraw told FORBES in 2013. “I’ve always said you need to star in your own life because if you don’t, nobody will.”

Like Dr. Phil, DeGeneres banks big from a slice of her show's net income. The Warner Bros.-produced syndicated hit is watched by some 3.6 million people a day; its popularity has juiced downloads for her Heads Up! mobile game, of which she likely gets a cut. A CoverGirl deal and a voice role in Finding Dory boost her take-home to match last year's career-best total. She is one of six women on the list, including Judge Judy Sheindlin (No. 4, $47 million) and Heidi Klum (No. 6, $19 million).

Combined, the world’s 20 highest-paid TV show hosts earned a whopping $498 million between June 1, 2015 and June 1, 2016, before management fees and taxes. Previously, FORBES had published rankings of TV personalities, which included reality stars. This is the first time a 20-person list of only show hosts has been produced. Figures are based on data from Nielsen and IMDB, as well as interviews with agents, managers and lawyers.

Morning show salaries account for nearly a fifth ($98 million) of the cumulative total. The network’s crown jewels sport outsized ratings--and earn a pretty penny—which makes media companies willing to pay millions to maintain a winning formula. To wit, Today's Matt Lauer rounds out the top five with $25 million, ahead of Robin Roberts' (Good Morning America) $18 million payday. Her co-anchors George Stephanopoulos ($15 million) and Michael Strahan ($17 million) both make the cut, the latter of whom ties with his former Live! co-anchor, Kelly Ripa. Strahan's salary is expected to go up next year as he takes on increased duties at Good Morning America following his departure from Live! in April.

Graphic by Holly Warfield

The Wheel of Fortune is still spinning dollar signs for Pat Sajak ($15 million), who first started hosting it 35 years ago. With Jeopardy's Alex Trebek, plus relative newcomers Steve Harvey (Family Feud) and Drew Carey (The Price Is Right), he proves that there's still cash to be made on game shows--especially when you're the presenter.

Harvey, who also hosts his own eponymous talk show as well as comedy-variety series Little Big Shots, has not seen his earnings suffer after a Miss Universe gaffe in which he crowned the wrong woman earlier this year. He publicly apologized on air for the flub, tearfully saying, "I’m beyond sorry for what happened that night.”

This year, the four highest-paid game show hosts made more than the four top-earning late night hosts, proving that cool doesn't always equal cash. Together, Stephen Colbert ($15 million), Jimmy Fallon, ($15 million), Conan O'Brien ($12.5 million) and Jimmy Kimmel ($12 million) earned a combined $54.5 million--$4 million less than the ranking's game show hosts. But the salaries of these funnymen do not consistently match their viewership: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has mostly lagged behind The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel Live in ratings.

Longtime talk show host Maury Povich, Comedy Central’s Chris Hardwick and CNN’s Anderson Cooper all narrowly missed the $12 million barrier to entry. Across the pond, British stalwarts Ant & Dec earned just below the cut off, but could find themselves on the ranking soon.

They would be in familiar company: Next year, Brits Dermot O’Leary and Jeremy Clarkson both have a good shot at making the list thanks to handsome multi-million dollar deals outside of our scoring period.

So stay tuned--TV's golden period is raining green for a while longer.